Experts urge federal government to preserve study options
FRIDAY, Aug. 7 (HealthDay News) -- Only two of 21 approved human embryonic stem cell lines are routinely used by researchers in the United States, says a new study.
The study found that two cell lines, known as H1 and H9, ac...

Neurons communicate with each other with the help of nano-sized vesicles. Disruption of this communication process is responsible for many diseases and mental disorders like e.g. depression. Nerve signals travel from one neuron to another through vesicles - a nano-sized container loaded with neuro...

Scientists spot proteins that help sperm revert to stem cell state
THURSDAY, Aug. 6 (HealthDay News) -- Two proteins that play a major role in reverting adult sperm cells back into stem cells have been identified by U.S. researchers.
A team from Johns Hopkins University School of Me...

OLDSMAR, Fla., Aug. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cryo-Cell International, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: CCEL), one of the largest and most established leaders in stem cell innovation, will present data on the proliferative ability of stem cells found in menstrual blood (known as Men...

RIDGEFIELD, Conn., Aug. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Boehringer Ingelheim announced today at the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer's 13th World Conference on Lung Cancer (WCLC), San Francisco, CA, the initiation of a Phase III clinical study of BIBW 2992 as first-line treatment...

WILMINGTON, Del., July 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- AstraZeneca (NYSE: AZN ) today announced the company has submitted a New Drug Application to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and a Marketing Authorisation Application (MAA) to the European Medicines Agency (EMEA) for an inves...

SEATTLE, Aug. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cell Therapeutics, Inc. (CTI) (Nasdaq and MTA: CTIC) announced results from a study released by Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center at the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC) 13th World Conference on Lung Cancer. Th...

EMERYVILLE, Calif., July 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Bionovo, Inc. (Nasdaq: BNVI ) announced today that a study of the gene regulation in multiple cell lines by several of their estrogen receptor beta (ERb) candidates will be published in Public Library of Science One.
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SUNRISE, Fla., July 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Bioheart, Inc., (OTC Bulletin Board: BHRT) announced today that the panel discussion on myoblast (muscle stem cell) therapy between distinguished physicians and scientists is available for playback at the following site:
http://www.bioheartin...

RICHMOND, Calif., June 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Sangamo BioSciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: SGMO ) today announced that a key research milestone has been achieved in its Research and License Agreement with Genentech, Inc., a wholly-owned member of the Roche Group, for the generation of cell lines wit...

Stem Cell Technologies for Surgery
TEXARKANA, Texas, June 5 /PRNewswire/ -- A new breakthrough in adult stem cell technology has three Texarkana neurosurgeons leading their industry by utilizing concentrated stem cells for spine surgery. The innovative technique is improving the desired resul...

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...st common masses found here include thymomas, germ cell tumors, lymphomas, thyroid tissue, and parathyroid... classified as lymphocytic, epithelial, or spindle cell histologies, but this is not very significant clin... all age groups. Can also be primary mediastinal B cell lymphoma with poor prognosis (8,9). Common symptom...

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This condition is inherited in an autosomal recessive pattern, meaning two copies of the gene in each cell are altered.
A case study was done in 1961 on a 7-year-old girl who passed away from heart failure with atransferrinemia. The half-normal ...

...hich is more or less in common to the fields of medicine , veterinary medicine , odontology and fundamental biosciences such as biochemistry , cell biology , genetics , zoology , botanics and microbiology . Biomedicine is usually not concerned with the practice of medicine as much as it is wi...

...ion of receptor specificities that occurs during T cell and B cell differentiation, whereby a proportion of the cells...irculation from peripheral sites. In the case of T cell central tolerance, additional sources of antigen a...

...an action potential . Accordingly, any ionic current that hyperpolarizes a cell is called an inhibitory current.
In their experiments with projection neu... These observations suggested that no changes occurred in the post-synaptic cell to change its responsiveness to GABA during DSI. Somehow, DSI appeared to b...

A giant cell is a mass formed by the union of several distinct cells. It can arise in response to an infection or foreign body. Within this area there is a multinucleate giant cell of the Langhans type. ... MeSH Langhans+ giant + cells . Histology at ohio-state.edu. Histology ...

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Researchers from the University of Bath are embarking on a project to use stem cell technology that could reduce the number of animal experiments used to study conditions such as motor neurone disease.
Dr Vasanta Subramanian, from the University's Department of Biology & Biochemistry, will be d...

Walter and Eliza Hall Institute scientists have found that a population of breast cells called luminal progenitor cells are likely to be responsible for breast cancers that develop in women carrying mutations in the gene BRCA1.
BRCA1 gene mutations are found in 10-20 per cent of women with hered...

Stem cell research promises remedies to many devastating diseases that are currently incurable, ranging from diabetes and Parkinson's disease to paralysis. Totipotent embryonic stem cells have great potential for generating a wide range of different human cells that can be used to restore malfunct...

New Rochelle, NY, July 28, 2009The unique association between microorganisms and their hosts, whether insects, plants, or mammals, provides a fascinating view into how microbial symbionts adapt to changing biological environments. Insights into the diversity and complexity of symbiotic relationshi...

LA JOLLA, Calif., July 24, 2009 Scientists at Burnham Institute for Medical Research (Burnham) have found that the Caspase-8 protein, long known to play a major role in promoting programmed cell death (apoptosis), helps relay signals that can cause cancer cells to proliferate, migrate and invade ...

New Orleans, LA Andy Catling, PhD, Associate Professor in the Department of Pharmacology and the Stanley S. Scott Cancer Center at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, has been awarded a $177, 500 supplement to his RO1 grant by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences to support his ...

ST. LOUIS, July 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SAFC Biosciences(R), a business segment within SAFC(R), a member of the Sigma-Aldrich Group (Nasdaq: SIAL ), announced today that it has developed a new, chemically defined cell culture supplement based on the characterization of hydrol...

SUNRISE, Fla., July 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Bioheart, Inc., (OTC Bulletin Board: BHRT) a company committed to delivering intelligent devices and biologics that help monitor, diagnose and treat heart failure and cardiovascular diseases announced today that the US FDA cleared a p...

MADISON, Wis., July 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Cellular Dynamics International (CDI) announced today the appointment of Junying Yu , Ph.D., as senior research fellow. Her significant body of published research has shown her to be one of the leading stem cell researchers in the world. Dr....

NEW YORK, July 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- NeoStem, Inc. (NYSE Amex: NBS ), which is pioneering the pre-disease collection, processing and long-term storage of adult stem cells for future medical need, was featured on CBS2 News, New York City's local CBS station, on Monday evening July 13 ...

B cells are lymphocytes that play a large role in the humoral immune response (as opposed to the cell-mediated immune response ).
The abbreviation "B" stands for the bursa of Fabricius which is an organ unique to birds, where B cells mature. It does not (as commonly assumed among immun...

A cytotoxic (or T C ) T cell is a T cell (a type of white blood cell ) which has on its surface antigen receptors that can bind to fragments of antigens displayed by the Class I MHC molecules of virus infected somatic cells and tumor cells.
Once activated by a MHC-antigen complex...

A helper (or T H ) T cell is a T cell (a type of white blood cell ) which has on its surface antigen receptors that can bind to fragments of antigens displayed by the Class II MHC molecules found on professional antigen-presenting cells (APCs).
Once bound to an antigen, the T H ce...

A hfr cell (also called hfr strain ) is a bacterium with a conjugative plasmid (often F ) integrated into its genomic DNA. Hfr is the abbreviation for high frequency recombination . Unlike a normal F+ cell, hfr strains will, upon conjugation with a F- cell, attempt to transfer their ...

Memory B cells are B cells that although activated by the immune system, they are stored inside the circulatory system for later use, for long periods of time, possibly a whole lifetime.
Like other cells such as helper T cells , killer T cells , and plasma cells they never become directly...

Stem cells are primal, undifferentiated cells which have the unique potential to produce any kind of cell in the body. Many medical researchers believe stem cells have the potential to revolutionize medicine , enabling doctors to repair specific tissues or to grow organs .
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The cell is the structural and functional unit of all known living organisms. It is the smallest unit of an organism that is classified as living, and is often called the building block of life. Some organisms, such as most... B cells are lymphocytes that play a large role in the ... The a...

Aspects of the topic vessel - cell are discussed in the following places at Britannica. Assorted References function in pteridophytes ( in lower vascular plant (biology): Cells of the vascular system ) ...secondary walls display ladderlike (scalariform) thickenings. The largest tracheids ar...

T cells belong to a group of white blood cells known as lymphocytes, and play a central role in cell -mediated immunity. They can be distinguished from other lymphocyte types, such as B cells and natural killer cells by the presence of a special receptor on their cell ... T helper ...

Stem cells are cells found in most, if not all, multi-cellular organisms. They are characterized by the ability to renew themselves through mitotic cell division and differentiating into a diverse range of specialized cell ... Embryonic stem cells (ES cells) are stem cells derived fro...

Somatic cells are any cells forming the body of an organism, as opposed to germline cells. In mammals, germline cells are the spermatozoa and ova which fuse during fertilization to produce a cell called a zygote, from which the entire mammalian embryo develops. Every other cell ty...

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